BOOK/MOVIE COMPARISON

I agree, some of the stuff they threw in there that wasnt in the book was kind of stupid too.

yeah like the fact that in the book Billy Black and Charlie was not friends at the time, but in the movie they were playin around in the beginning.....
"I'm down with the kids dawg"
HA HA HA HA.....ummm no. Totally took my mind to American Idol and I don't like having my mind go from Edward to Randy Jackson......ummmm ewwwww

LOL. Thats not even how Bella sees Billy and Jacob for the first time in the book either. She runs into Jacob at the La Push Beach and he is described as looking a few years younger than her since he is supposed to be in the movie also, but Taylor Lautner looks like he is older than her. Jacob isnt supposed to look older until New Moon. They also changed how Angela felt about Eric since she doesnt like Eric in the book and wasnt to happy about going to the dance with him either. But in the movie she is telling Bella she wants to go with Eric but she doesnt think he is going to ask her so she ends up asking him.

Yeah there were just a lot of things I wish would have stayed the same as the book, even if they were little things. I know Stephanie was on set a lot of the time and if I wrote a book and they were making a movie from it I wouldn't like it being changed around a lot. Even if we were short on money at least leave minor details out but keep with the story line ya know.

compared to the books, the movie wasn't amazing, since we all know how good the books are.. I wasn't expecting more though, it was a good movie, it just didn't compare to the books.

I think if I had the read the books and then watched the movie I wouldnt have liked the movie at all. Its bad enough that when I watch it now I am constantly picking it apart, and I notice something different from the book every time I watch it.

I know what you mean. I still love the movie and still watch it at least once a week lol, but it just makes me want to read the books again to get the full affect

Well, the funny thing abuot the movie is, in a interiveiw stephanie said there were actually changes she wishes were what she had originally wrote.I dont know which parts, but she was really involved with it so she probably let alot more happen diffrently then we think. I dont know why they culdnt follow it exactly lol I mean a script is about as long as the book is lol why cant they just follow it! I dont know anything about screenplay writing or moving making, but it seems like a good idea!

Why would she want anything in the book to be different? I think the books are PERFECT! Nothing should be different, I cant imagine them being any different either. Stephenie is really good at detail when she writes. I wonder if all her books are as detailed as the Twilight books.

She wanted to add the scene where Bella was dreaming and woke up, saw Edward, turned on the light and then he was gone.

And I think another scene she wishes she had thought of was Edward climbing the trees with Bella. But it is the little things they changed that drive me nuts...the color if the kitchen(paint costs the same amount no matter what color you get) and the Bio teachers name (no cost there)...the fact that she has gym before bio and met mike before Jessica.

That's one thing that gets me. I don't understand how Stephanie could say that the movie was good. And how she could say she took part in it. If you ask me, she is just saying those things to get some viewers. It just doesn't make any sense.

True....but maybe to her the changes were insignificant...i know in one of the interviews on the movie she was saying that some of what she wrote wouldn't have "translated all that well" from book to movie...having no clue about filming she may have been told this and believed it. Because I can't think of anything in the book that couldn't have been done on film. I realize that some of the scenes would have been to long or dragged on in movie context but they could have been condenced or something.

I think they should have found a better house for the Cullens. How many time did she talk about the white on white decor? Most of the house was paneling?!?!? The outside also was supposed to be white but instead it was brown. Also when she was supposed to go to Seattle instead of the prom why would they change that to Jacksonville? It makes more sense to me that she would be going to Seattle for the day. There a lot of little things in the movie that bug me.

yEah and then she actually does go to the prom (making her out to be a liar), after she told Mike she had a non-refundable ticket and that's why she wasn't going to go to the prom...